A Shop Sweeper!! A must have!

Here is a $93 Vevor sweeper that I picked up because I'm tired of sweeping so much! Works so good I'm going to buy another one to modify with a mint dust vacuum haha the kids and I can clean together after that

[@silverperzon]

I’ve had the same model for a couple months, for the $90 ish bucks I got it for, it’s fairly good. I use it to clean a large car port and it picks up 5 lbs of blown in desert sand nicely. Just gotta tip back the bin every so often to make room for more. Multipoint adjustment is much better compared to the Karcher. Also so long as one wheel is spinning, the main spinning brush will continue to move. One tip for the front wheel. Clean it out throughly first and hit it with some spray dry lube. It doesn’t collect as much dirt as an oil does and has held up really well in my case for the last 3 months.

[@AveryHastings1]

I'll definitely do that, I pam my sawmill tracks that does the same nothing sticks really for a while. I've been typing the bin up like you do. all in all the price was right!

[@kennethloki7011]

I've been replying a lot but stick with dry lube. Wet grease holds sand and whatnot and eventually acts as an abrasive. Plus, it's a bigger pain to clean.

[@GambitsEnd]

This is wizardry.

[@kennethloki7011]

Im digging way back in my memory but i believe we took the guide wheels off, so they didn't get hung up on bigger rocks and such your results my vary especially going of my memory of all people

[@AveryHastings1]

I feel like the guide wheels would be more effective on the sides of the unit behind the brushes so it sweeps the floor clean in front of them instead of in the middle where it's brushing the materials

[@kennethloki7011]

@AveryHastings1 I used those sweepers or whatever you want to call them at a precest concrete plant. So there was always rocks just the right size to stop you dead in your tracks. And of course it always happened when you had a good rhythm going. I'm sure there's a better spot for the caster but I never found it so off it went. Either way they're a great tool and sure beat a shop broom. The electric one we had lasted a day before we ditched it cause it kicked up so much more dust. But this was awhile ago. Hopefully things have improved since then.

[@liamp51]

Does it work on rough concrete floors? I have an old automatic car wash bay I converted into my detailing bay but the floor is pretty worn from decades of use as a car wash. Getting really sick of using a broom lol.

[@Murdermax14]

I noticed your concrete is pretty smoothe, do you think it would work on a more corse concrete?

[@AveryHastings1]

@@Murdermax14 yes the floor is polished a bit, it does still pick up on a rough broomed finish like on my door aprons. however I bet that would wear the bristles down faster. should work good on a regular concrete floor though

[@Murdermax14]

@AveryHastings1 thanks for the quick response, I get so tired of blowing my shop out, it just basically spreads the dust around and then settles again. I eventually would like to grind my floors down but I built over a 30x40 concrete pad that was originally meant for outside so we got it brushed. Polished floors are so much nicer to your knees when working on anything lol

[@AveryHastings1]

@@Murdermax14 Yeah I hear you there, do you use a leaf blower? I picked up some shop fans from HF for the meantime to blow dusty air out but need to install a ventilation fan in the gable end. I feel that grinding a brushed floor would be fairly quick.. you just knocking down the small ^ shape lines even its not all the way

[@Murdermax14]

@AveryHastings1 yea I have a battery powered milwaukee leaf blower, that's what I usually do is open all 3 bay doors and I turn on 4 shop fans... best I have right now lol

[@Walt_iz]

She's mint guy!

[@AveryHastings1]

just have to swerve the little wheel around the big stuff and it picks it all up!

[@Jessersadler]

man. . . if that took a battery, it would be unbeatable

[@AveryHastings1]

Oh I know! It's a drawback as much as it's a benefit lol I was thinking of mounting a hand vacuum on the handle to the dust pan cause it does kick up the fine silt a bit when I'm walking faster on the final sweep.

[@Jessersadler]

@AveryHastings1 I guess they do make a few with batteries. they're Big $$$, even the Ryobi is $500. . . A small vacuum on the collection portion to keep dust down would be sweet too. Basically a mini street sweeper. Make it take DeWalt or Milwaukee batteries. . .

[@Jessersadler]

Maybe drill a hole in the collection bin and put a female vacuum attachment, then you can hang the DeWalt battery vacuum off the handle and have it connected.

[@AveryHastings1]

That's exactly what I had in mind, someone offered to give me another sweeper they found in a storage unit, so I'll use that one to modify

[@Jessersadler]

@@AveryHastings1 post video with the upgrade

[@tonyp9179]

Sprits the floor with water first

[@AveryHastings1]

to keep the dust down I assume? I would rather not get the bristle wet when they do it builds up heavily on the little flaps on the bin. at least when I nick'd a damp area and little puddle that's what it did

[@kennethloki7011]

Doesn't work well on wet floors. It just cakes up.

[@TheCleric42]

There’s a reason God gave us robots to clean our floors.

[@AveryHastings1]

I wouldn't want a robot, would probably suck something up it wasn't supposed to and also would probably fill up in the first pass and then need me to empty it... so I might as well do it myself with this